Zitat von Paul Gardiner <li...@glidos.net>:
Just singed up the the list to ask a question and then found the solution before I'd manage to ask. Thought I'd post anyway in case it helped someone else in a search.I have a few fairly big folders, one around 50,000 messages. I was finding these would take ages to open. Worse, when a large folder did eventually open, something had timed out, and I was shown no message. Checking my server, it still had an imap process whirring away. When that eventually stopped, retrying to open the folder would be successful, but - I think - only because the messages had all been pulled into the server's memory file cache. In any case, opening the folder again at a later date would fail. The solution was simple. In the imp config, under the Server tab, I had sort_limit set to 0. I set it to 1000, and now everything zips along at breakneck speed. I can't believe I'v had this set up wrongly for the years I've been using imp, but there ya go. One question I still have. Is the need for this setting because of the imap server I'm using? I use courier. Might another handle sorted request more efficiently? Or might I not have the best configuration set up for courier? Cheers, Paul.
It depends what field you use to sort. Most IMAP server have some index on most common searched/sorted fields so sorting by this fields would be quick, all others painful slow with many messages in the inbox.
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